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'''[[Urcea]]''' has a universal multi-payer health care system paid for by a combination of statutory, state-funded health insurance officially called [[Ministry_of_Administration_of_the_Realm_(Urcea)#Agency_for_the_King.27s_Health_Aid_Administration|King's Health Aid]] (KHA) and private health-insurance. The system, which provides a public health insurance option, sees approximately 65% of citizens using the KHA System and the remaining percent using private health insurance plans. In the 2014-15 fiscal year, expenditures on the King's Health Aid was approximately $4.3 trillion dollars, or around 6% of the GDP and around $3,024 per capita. | '''[[Urcea]]''' has a universal multi-payer health care system paid for by a combination of statutory, state-funded health insurance officially called [[Ministry_of_Administration_of_the_Realm_(Urcea)#Agency_for_the_King.27s_Health_Aid_Administration|King's Health Aid]] (KHA) and private health-insurance. The system, which provides a public health insurance option, sees approximately 65% of citizens using the KHA System and the remaining percent using private health insurance plans. In the 2014-15 fiscal year, expenditures on the King's Health Aid was approximately $4.3 trillion dollars, or around 6% of the GDP and around $3,024 per capita. | ||
In | In 2020, Urcea ranked highly in the world in life expectancy (80.5 years for men). It had a very low infant mortality rate (4.1 per 1,000 live births), and it ranked highly in the number of practicing physicians, at 3.7 per 1,000 persons. While outcomes, hospital wait times, and quality of care in Urcea are all considered to be "very good", the nation's healthcare system at times has come under criticism for its adherence to Catholic social teaching, and [[Discrimination around the world|LGBT advocates]] as well as [[Abortion around the world|pro-choice advocates]] ranked it the "Most Regressive Healthcare System in the World" in 2021. | ||
== History == | == History == | ||